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Version 2026.10.28.3
How much will companies spend checking AI agents' work?: a new section, "In security operations", covers a16z's October 28 survey of 100 CISOs at large companies: how far AI agents already reach into their systems, and how many still want a person to approve what the agents do.
Big tech capex tracker: Microsoft's July to September 2026 quarter is added, from its 10-Q filed October 28. Additions to property and equipment were $39.4 billion, up 103% from $19.4 billion a year earlier. Alphabet and Amazon hadn't filed for the quarter yet.
Get the data: the big tech capex file includes Microsoft's new quarter.
How much will companies spend checking AI agents' work?: a new section, "Judgment calls", covers Anthropic's October 27 study of experts who followed an AI agent's lean.
How We Use AI went live with 15 pages: the home page; eight question and data pages, including the big tech capex tracker; the Spend and tokens hub; the blog; and About our data, Get the data, How to cite and Conflict of interest.
Get the data: a members-only research pack (sign in with a UX Magazine membership) and two data files, big tech capex (CSV) and the Census business survey's AI-use series (JSON).
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